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(NoModeL) G. W. WOODWARJL.

' Foot Rest for Registers.

No. 239,909. Patented April 5,1881.

Ila 128 01 N-PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAFHEIL WASHINGTON D. C.

UNITED. STATES PATENT Orifice:a

GEORGE \V. WOODWARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FOOT- REST Fo R REGISTEMRS.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,909, dated April 5, 1881.

Application filed January 6, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. W001)- WARD, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Foot- Rests for Registers Heaters, 850., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, light, and portable foot-rest, which may be convenientlyattached to and detached from hot air registers, heaters, stoves, or grates, and which is so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to provide for its attachment to registers, heaters, stoves, or

grates of different sizes and configurations.

The invention consists in a portable foot rest composed of horizontal rods or bars and attached arms or brackets adapted to slide upon said rods or bars, whereby provision is ali'orded for moving the arms or brackets nearer to or farther from each other to providefor their attachment to registers, heaters, stoves, or grates of different sizes and configurations. v

It also consists in combinations of parts and details of construction to be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a hot-air register and a foot-rest of my improved construction attached thereto; and Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the register and foot-rest upon the dotted line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Similarletters of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Although I have only shown my foot-rest as attached to aregister, it may be attached with equal facility to any heater, stove, or grate which has openings or perforations suitably placed or arranged.

A designates a hot-air register, which is set in the wall B of a building in the usual way, and which is itself nowise different from registers now in common use. The register, as shown, is constructed with interlaced scroll or vermiculated work, which affords a great number of openings through it.

The foot rest is composed of a footpiece, shelf, or support, 0, and two arms or brackets, D, to which said foot-piece, shelf, or support is connected, and by which it is sustained. third bracket might be placed intermediately between the two here represented. From the -upper side or top of each' bracket D there projects upwardly a finger or hook, at, and from the under side or bottom of each bracket there projects downwardly a stop, I). As clearly shown in Fig. 2, the finger or hook at is at the extreme end of the bracket, and the stop I) is slightly removed from the end, the front face of the finger or hook and the back face of the stop being distant from each other about the thickness of the open-work of the register. In lieu of the fingers or hooks and stops, the brackets may be otherwise constructed.

When the foot-rest is to be attached to the If desirable, for large foot rests a w register, the fingers or books a are inserted the foot-rest against falling or moving downward.

When the rest is to be detached from the register it is only necessary to lift or swing the rest upward and withdraw the fingers or hooks a from the perforations or openings in the register.

Inasmuch as registers vary greatly in size and also in the pattern of the interlaced scroll or open work, it is very desirable that the brackets D be connected with the foot-piece,

shelf, or support 0," so that they may be con veniently adjusted toward and from each other. In order to provide for this, I have shown the foot-piece, shelf, or support 0 as composed of metal rods or bars 0, of which one or more may be employed, and which fit loosely in holes at in the brackets D. The brackets may then be moved longitudinally upon the rods or bars to bring them to the proper distance apart. I have here shown four rods or bars, and the twooutside ones are united by a bend at the ends, which serves to prevent the two intermediate rods or bars from moving longitudinally.

The great advantage of my foot-rest consists in the readiness with which it may beattached to and detached from a register, stove, or grate, and the ease'with which it may be adjusted to suit registers, stoves, and grates of different sizes and patterns.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi 1. A portable foot-rest composed of horizontal rods or bars and attached arms or brackets adapted to slide upon said rods or bars, whereby provision is afforded for moving the arms or brackets bodily nearer to or farther from each other, to suit registers, heat ers, stoves, or grates of different sizes and configurations, substantially as specified.

2. The foot-rest composed ofrods or bars 0 and brackets orarmsD,having holes d, through which said rods or bars are inserted, and-which are provided with fingers or hooks to and stops 2), all substantially as specified.

GEORGE W. WOODWARD.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN,

FREDK. HAYNES. 

